Big Healing Book - John 9:1-7

John 9:1-7:

And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.
And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be manifest in him.
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: The night cometh, when no man can work.
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,
And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.

[The results of this take up the remainder of chapter 9, through verse 41.]

Notes on John 9:1-7:

Some difficulties with this passage are discussed under the topic Objection: The Man in John 9 Was Born Blind, and That Was God’s Will.

Some conditions are the result of an individual’s sin. A prime example is the case in Romans 1:26-27 of homosexuals reaping in their bodies the due penalty for their error. Jesus warned the man at the Pool of Bethesda to sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon him (see John 5:2-19). So sin can definitely produce sickness.

However, other conditions are just byproducts of the fall, not individual sins, as was the case with the man born blind in this passage. Thus, we should never judge someone by thinking, “I wonder what sin he committed that opened the door for this sickness to come upon him.” The person might not have committed any sin that is related to the sickness! You should not beat yourself up with that thought either and go on a “witch hunt” for what sin could have “opened the door” for you to get whatever condition you’re dealing with.

In “the old days” people would sometimes say and think, “God cursed that family with a mentally ill child. I wonder what they did!” But this passage proves the fallacy of jumping to such a mean conclusion!